Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India CompanyA commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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... Dutch East India Company (the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or VOC). They had, however, found a very rich trade exchanging bullion for Indian cotton and silk cloth through coastal factories (as their trading posts were known) ...
... Dutch models would sim- ply be reprinted, “and make the thing seem non-sense to the Natives for whom you intend it.”15 In addition, to ensure that what was written and printed might subsequently be spoken there was the need to secure ...
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Contents
1 | |
Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter | 27 |
Accounting for Collectivity Order and Authority at Fort St George | 67 |
Print Politics and the Company in England | 104 |
Print and Prices on Exchange Alley | 157 |
6 The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | 198 |
Postscript | 266 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 305 |
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Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company Miles Ogborn No preview available - 2007 |